Welcome to Litsy!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Just give this one all the stars! Clocking in at 600 pages and it flew by! Who knew I would be rooting for spiders in space!

We are back from a nice fall break. Peter went to the big apple and Matt stayed around, working on his sourdough starter. While we were away we both have been reading books on the side, and we begin this episode discussing some of our fall reading highlights.

We end by picking an October book to read. Will we continue to pick a horror book or will we go another direction?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2cpTWJW3JqI2FBNko8Q6Wk

Here are my next 4 books for #52bookclub24
I am absolutely blown away by Children of Time, and I can't recommend it highly enough. I finished it last night and I have a massive book hangover. While it is (partly) about a civilisation built by sentient spiders (talk about a personal phobia!), Tchaikovsky managed to have me sympathize with them. Just wow.

Loved this science fiction space read. If you have taken an evolutionary biology class this book will be for you. Humans need to find a new place to live, a crazy scientist wants to add a nano virus to monkeys DNA, the spiders “get” and use the virus instead. First in a trilogy!🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️

#NewYearNewBooks @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#InvolvesJourney

This weeks #TBR
2 chunksters

#weeklyforecast

Tell me why this has been on my TBR since 2018, the series won a Hugo award this year, I hear people talk about how it is THE alien/first contact series to read, and not once have I heard it is about spiders?
The first chapter about Portia I totally glazed over because ohh he is throwing in a fancy nature spin but then another came and I was thinking weird, I had to dive into the reviews to figure out the first contact is with evolved spiders!

There are only 2 weeks left of the year and I am trying to get through these big books. If I can shatter my goal of getting all of the books off my Goodreads TBR from not only my hope of 2019 but also 2020.
Time to get reading!

December #TBR

Final push of the year!!!

I am most excited to tackle
Children of Time (which won a Hugo for best series this year)
Land of Milk and Honey (nominated for a slew of awards!)
Project Hail Mary, Legendborn, and Black Sun which I am constantly hearing great things about!

What are you looking forward to this month?

My #10BeforeTheEnd

I have been working all year to get all the books 2019 and before off my Goodreads TBR, and I feel like I am doing really well! If I can get to these 10 I will not only finish 2019 but also 2020.

They are all book I am excited about but just keep putting off for one reason or another.
7 weeks to go so must tackle about 1.5 of these each week.

One of the most exciting Scifi books i have ever read.

This is the 1st book of the Children of Time series, nominated for the 2023 Hugo Best Series award. It featured some of my favourite SF themes: a generation ship, AI and other advanced technologies, survival in deep space and an alien world. I also never thought I'd empathize with giant spiders as characters.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
#SummerEndReadathon @TheSpineView
#RushAthon @DieAReader @Andrew65 @GHABI4ROSES

Starting a chunkster challenge! I have many 500+ books that have been sitting on my shelves for years now. In July I met my 100 book goal so I think for the rest of the year I am going to read at least one from this pile to get these big ones off my shelf.

Starting in August with Wool, and Children of Time, and I can listen to The Map of the Sky on audio from my library.

There are 12 titles here excited to see how many I can get to!

Hoping to get the tagged as bookspin and center of my board ahahahah

It is my goal book to finish in August.

#bookspin @tharomaofbooks

Pardon my ignorance but prior to this if asked to name something by Tchaikovsky, I'd have said "Swan Lake".
If you're a visual-minded arachnophobe, don't even think about approaching this book's orbit. Otherwise, what's not to love? A ship called Gilgamesh, with a Classicist as Key Crew. Oodles of social commentary parcelled up in a thrillingly imaginative narrative. (I was every bit as invested in the spiders' story as the humans'.) And sequels!

Spiders! 🕷️
I'm ok with that. Had it been crane-flies, the book would be back at the library already! 😨

I barely read sci-fi but when I do, I read the best. It was a very very interesting one I could not put it down. I do not recommand this novel for those who afraid of spiders! 🕷🕷🕷 Spiders evolution would be the last spicies I think about but I loved it. I will read the second and third part too.

@TheAromaofBooks #bookspin

I am so excited that my GR TB is getting so close to having no 2019 books on it! I have added a few of these to the #14books14weeks2023 challenge in hopes to really get moving on these older ones this summer!

There are a couple of chunksters on here that have me a bit nervous!

#bookspin list @thearomaofbooks

So excited I have less than 20 until I am into my 2020 TBR 😅

Last year I did really well with a bookspin list and a bookspin bingo list. It really helped me whittle down my GR TBR while also getting bingos reading more current books.
I am going to continue the tradition! One of my goals is to get everyone before 2020 off my TBR, I have 39 books to get to.
There will probably be overlap in the lists as I try to get things moving.
So excited for this new year! Thanks for all your hard work @thearomaofbooks

Giant, intelligent spiders & humanity‘s last few, struggling to survive….mix them together and what do you get? An entertaining book!

This novel took what felt like forever to read. It was enjoyable overall if perhaps a little slow at times. I like how Tchaikovsky interprets the psyche of a non-primate species and how he addresses the challenges inherent in a meeting of two sentient life forms.

#Movie2BookRecs @klou
Prompt: Passengers

Excellent—the last remnants of humankind leave Earth hoping to find a new home…which they think they have when they discover a terraformed planet. But, the planet isn‘t waiting for them, things aren‘t as the seem, & it‘s a race against time to ensure the survival of the human race. Filled with the audacity, hubris, & hope of humans, the story is also one of the best examples of evolutionary worldbuilding I‘ve ever read. Fascinating, engaging read.

This morning‘s reading while everyone else is still asleep.

Mind blowing! Such an original idea.
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Well, that was quite a journey! I found some of the middle bits hard going but I‘m very glad I stuck with it as altogether the story is glorious.

Another episode of me trying to get my head into science fiction. Enjoying this but finding the two intertwined stories hard work to switch between.

#SavvySettings @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#OuterSpace

This is my first sci-fi genre book ever, and I enjoyed it tremendously. 😄

It talks of a time when the Earth is no more and humanity searches for a new home. The book explores so many incredible themes such as genocide, racism, sexism, cultural misinformation and greed.

I loved the ending - what a spectacular alternative to reality. Definitely recommend this book if you‘re starting out with science fiction.

Children of Ruin - here I come 😃

Starting a new book today! So excited to get back into science fiction (-:

It‘s a very interesting read about how intelligence could manifest itself in creatures with very different physical characteristics and ways of interacting with the environment.

I ❤️ book mail! This appears to be turning into the winter of really big books…

The earth is gone and an ark ship full of humans is searching the galaxy for a new home. Also a green planet with ultra advanced spiders.
This was going to be a so-so read until the last few chapters. They were brilliant 🕷
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#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
#LittenListen #HappyEnding @aperfectmjk
#AVeryMerryBingo #RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer @Jadams1776

Tchaikovsky creates a sentient species. He gives them a unique means of communicating, a particular social hierarchy and a biological technology that makes complete sense. Then sets them against the last of humankind. In doing so, he shines a light on many of our foibles and idiosyncrasies. The result has to be one of the best science fiction books of the last decade. Serious sci fi fans must read.

#SciFiBuddyread #buddyread #ChildrenOfTime @rsteve388 @BookwormAHN @LibrarianRyan

Doesn't seem to be my kind of book. I'm not invested in the story. I tried the audiobook, too. I'm just not interested in what's going on.

The writing is good, though. I'll definitely try some of Tchaikovsky's other books.

Goosebumps. I don't like Portia chapters. Someone should have TW-ed me. 😬 Guess that happens when you add a book to your TBR without reading the blurb properly. 😉

#ChildrenOfTime #DecemberBuddyRead #SciFiBuddyread #buddyread

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#BuddyRead #DecemberBuddyRead #ScifiBuddyRead @BookwormAHN @LibrarianRyan @julesG

Hey y'all. I am excited to do this buddy read with y'all! Here is a breakdown of how I plan to read the book. Feel free to do it differently or what have you. I am gonna see if I can find a discussion guide and see if we can't discuss what happens throughout the book as a group.

@TheAromaofBooks #BookSpinBingo #DecemberTBR I have two slots open (19 and 20 for two graphic novels. )

Looking forward to reading Children of Time. Planning to read a.150 pages a week. (It's a 600 page book) so this way it's easy to ensure completion.

I also have an #LMPBC book I need to fit in here.

Does anyone know if anyone hosts a Sci-fi Month long readathon? I was just thinking that I don't really read a whole.lot of sci-fi and I'd like to, could of.course use a little help from the community. Thanks in Advance!

A few weeks back I picked up an Etsy Blind Date With a Book and today it arrived! It was really fun to see what I got! The tagged book is the book but look how cute the packaging.

I've been checking goodwill sporadically for a couple books I'd like to find as used paperbacks. No luck with them today, but I scored this for 3 dollars. I'm calling this a win.

Thank you for these #3WordReviews @ShyBookOwl and thank you for the tag @Mavey 😌

Staggering! 🤯
Fascinating! 🖖
Unique! 🦄

If you‘d like to play, consider yourself tagged! 😀🏷

Thank you for this #WondrousWednesday @Eggs and thank you for the tag @TheSpineView 😀

1. For the tagged book, I‘m going with “Ziggy Stardust”, since it involves humanity‘s savior traveling through space and spiders from another world! 🕷

2. I love figures based on book characters like Funko Pops.

3. It doesn‘t matter to me if characters are my age. I enjoy the Stormlight Archive series and some of those characters are hundreds of years old!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 - I loved this book, a really interesting sci-fi story about humanities search amoung the stars. I loved the alternating chapters between life on the Gilgamesh spaceship and the green terraformed planet humanity wants to call home. The book starts and finishes with an exciting pace which made for easy reading, the ending could perhaps be seen as slightly anticlimactic, but I don‘t know how it could have been written any differently.

https://www.luulit.com/product/children-of-time-audible-audiobook-unabridged/

Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.

Who will inherit this new Earth?

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars....

WOW! Classic hard sci-fi for the win 📚📚📚📚📚 This is a rare 5 stack read for me, I loved this book every time I picked it up. Humans out in space, alternate species evolution, insane human/computer hybrids, and so well written from start to finish.

#SciFiSeptember @Klou
#Elysium

In this Sci-Fi novel the remains of humanity leave a dying Earth to find a new home among the stars.

#TarotTakeover #PageOfCups

Today‘s card represents curiosity and creative possibilities. This reminded me of the alien spiders from “Children of Time.” As the spiders evolve and develop more cognitive thought and awareness, they explore new technologies and create a whole new society. They become more curious about their world and the opportunities it presents.

Thank you to @ErinSueMreads and @Meaw_catlady for this fun bookish challenge! 🙏